Project6 1.0.0.1
Project6 1.0.0.1
An 8 × 8 bank of looping sample pads, launched on the bar, for macOS, as a
VST3 and an Audio Unit.
Drag a .wav onto a slot and click it to arm it; it comes in when the
transport crosses the next grid line, and stops on the line after that. Each
pad picks its own grid — 1/1, 1/2, 1/4 or 1/8 of a bar, so everything
nests and a 1/8 pad and a 1/1 pad start together on the downbeat. A box above
each column launches that whole column at once.
A slot can hold a .mid instead, looping on the same grid and playing out of
its row's MIDI output — row A on channel 1 through row H on channel 8 — with a
transpose of up to two octaves in place of a level bar.
Each row sums through its own fader, and there are nine output buses: the
main stereo mix plus a per-row direct out, tapped before the row fader, so
the fader balances the mix without changing what leaves for the desk.
Installing
Download Project6-1.0.0.1.pkg and open it. The installer offers the two
formats separately:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.component
Quit your DAW first — a running host holds the old copy open. Signed with a
Developer ID and notarised by Apple.
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Two host quirks, neither of them this plug-in
- In REAPER, use the VST3. REAPER never asks an Audio Unit whether it has
MIDI output and never sets a callback for one, so a MIDI pad's notes have
nowhere to go there. The plug-in emits them; the host is not listening. The
VST3 works in REAPER and the AU works in Logic. - Apple's AUMIDISynth goes silent at a transport loop point and stays
silent until the transport is stopped, while the MIDI goes on arriving. Use
a different synth if you loop.
Both were traced property by property rather than guessed at;
PORTING-NOTES.md §0 and §0a have the investigations.
Uninstalling
A .pkg never will, so:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/Project6.vst3
sudo rm -rf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/Project6.componentChecksum
c82983392897b0bca54d939008b8166d7aba75a455c98ad00a750c8865d4c53d Project6-1.0.0.1.pkg
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